Supporting Climate-Resilient Design for In-Stream Restoration and Fish Passage Projects

Road crossings at rivers and streams can create barriers to the movement of migratory fish when they are improperly designed or constructed. Washington State is home to several threatened species of salmon and trout, including bull trout, and recovery plans for these fish include repairing or replacing culverts that currently block their passage. The state is currently looking to replace approximately 1,000 culverts at an estimated cost of $2.45 billion. As engineers re-design these culverts, which typically have a service life of 50-100 years, it will be important to consider how changing climate conditions will impact streams in the region. Climate change is projected to increase peak streamflows, and therefore...

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Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Culvert Tool

This zipped file contains the model code, configuration files, and run scripts used to run the VIC model. All were developed by Mingliang liu at Washington State University (WSU).

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Historical and Future Peak Flow Statistics for Washington State, derived from VIC modeling and Dynamically Downscaled CMIP5 Projections

This dataset contains netcdf files with the peak flow statistics associated with culvert design, for the state of Washington. Additional information can be found in the project report.

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Building Tribal Capacity for Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment

FY2016This project will address limited tribal capacity for vulnerability assessment by providing guidance and data tailored to the needs and capacities of Northwest and Great Basin tribes. Specifically, the project will:1) Make the vulnerability assessment process more accessible to tribal staff by providing online guidance materials targeted to tribal needs and capacities;2) Address the demand for climate data at the scale of tribal decision-making by providing downscaled climate data and climate change summaries for tribes; and3) Support tribal staff through the vulnerability assessment process via workshops and a webinar to provide training on the use of project resources and datasets, and by staffing a Tribal...

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VIC model, configuration files, and run scripts for Washington State Culverts and Climate Change project

This zipped file contains the model code, configuration files, and run scripts used to run the VIC model. All were developed by Mingliang liu at Washington State University (WSU).

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Pacific Northwest High Resolution Snow Simulations

This directory contains summaries of 30 arc-second (~800m) snow products generated using the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) macroscale hydrologic model. The driving meteorological dataset was generated by downscaling the 1/16th degree data used by Littell et al. 2011 (Regional Climate and Hydrologic Change in the Northern US Rockies and Pacific Northwest, http://cses.washington.edu/picea/USFS/pub/). The downscaling to 30 arc-second was achieved using PRISM climate normals for monthly average temperature and precipitation. In addition to the increased resolution, VIC was adjusted to take gridcell mean slope and aspect as inputs to the radiative calculations. Due to space constraints, only SWE (Snow Water Equivalent,...

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A Guide to Modeling Low Flows and Intermittent Streams in the Pacific Northwest

As droughts become more frequent, there is a growing need to understand how drought impacts streamflow permanence. Intermittent streams, or streams that go dry at some point during the year, are found in all ecoregions and represent over half of the global stream network length. As stream intermittence increases, there will be implications for both aquatic and terrestrial wildlife communities, land management, and water rights holders. A core challenge to understanding how drought will impact streams is the fact that hydrologic models are often better at representing periods of high flow rather than low flow. Gaining a better understanding of the processes that lead to stream drying, and how these processes are...

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Creating Practitioner‐Driven, Science‐Based Plans for Connectivity Conservation in the Washington-British Columbia Transboundary Region

Enhancing ecological connectivity - the degree to which landscapes facilitate the movement of the organisms within them - is a frequently recommended strategy for conserving wildlife populations into the future. This is because a primary way in which species respond to climate change is by adjusting their geographic ranges to find more suitable temperatures and adequate food supplies. It is also because connectivity facilitates many other important ecological and evolutionary processes within species' ranges, further promoting resilience and healthy populations. However, widespread fragmentation of landscapes by human activities presents a serious obstacle to these processes, which may contribute to a decline in...

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